Thirdly, I know there’s at least one Scotchie on the list – so I thought he might be interested in seeing this.

A couple of definitions – The Hill refers to the area of the school traditionally occupied by boarders. Satura is a student newspaper/magazine.

And now for the quotes:

“Various models were available to 19th-century teachers. The Enlightenment influenced Scotch’s insistence that its teaching was systematic. The Bible’s first example of teaching is that Adam and Eve were told a rule, failed to learn it, and were expelled. Pedagogically this has two aspects, the use of punishment and the use of explanation.”